On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:34, Jeff wrote:
What I'm wondering about is what folks experience with software raid vs
hardware raid on linux is. A friend of mine ran a set of benchmarks at
work and found sw raid was running obscenely faster than the mylex and
(some other brand that isn't 3ware)
Jeff,
What I'm wondering about is what folks experience with software raid vs
hardware raid on linux is. A friend of mine ran a set of benchmarks at
work and found sw raid was running obscenely faster than the mylex and
(some other brand that isn't 3ware) raids..
Our company has stopped
J == Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
J Due to various third party issues, and the fact PG rules, we're planning
J on migrating our deplorable informix db to PG. It is a rather large DB
J with a rather high amount of activity (mostly updates). So I'm going to
If at all possible, batch your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff) writes:
On the pro-sw side you have lots of speed and less cost (unfortunately,
there is a pathetic budget so spending $15k on a raid card is out of the
question really).
I have been playing with a Perq3 QC card
http://www.scsi4me.com/?menu=menu_scsipid=143
which
My personal experience with RAID cards is that you have to spend money to get good
performance. You need battery backed cache because RAID 5 only works well with write
to cache turned on, and you need a good size cache too. If you don't have it, RAID 5
performance will suck big time. If you